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It's interesting you should say this, because this is exactly the opposite of what other moon landing conspiracy theorists claim, which is that the photos are too bright and the moon reflects too much. Here is one photo I've seen cited showing how reflective the moon is:
Originally posted by thesmokingman
Just throwing this out there to all you smart ATSers. I have always had ONE question about the moon landing and the possibility of it being a hoax.....The moon is a source of pretty bright light is it not? I mean, it produces quite a bit of light WAYYYY down here on earth. However, in EVERY single photo from the landing, there sure does not seem to be very much light.
[conspiracy theorist]: This is a famous picture labeled "Man on the Moon" I have a poster of this picture hanging on my wall in my room, and it always gives me a chuckle.
If you will look at area B you will notice a shadow cast across Buzz Aldrin's space suit. Once again, if the Sun is the only light source used on the moon, this shadow would have been MUCH darker.
[reply explaining it's not a conspiracy]: The Sun is the primary light source, however, it lights up not only the lunar surface, but the LM, the astronauts spacesuit, and anything else on the lunar surface so that light scattered off of those objects will fill the dark shadows with light. Try going into a small darkened room and shine a flashlight on the wall. The side of you opposite the flashlight which only sees the lighted wall will be lit by the scattered light off the wall from the flashlight spot. The Earth also adds some fill light to the shadows, but the Sun dominates the lighting on the Moon.
I would say it's a source of reflected light.
The moon is a source of pretty bright light is it not?
It did interfere with the photos. Many of them were overexposed due to the brightness of the sun even though the cameras were adjusted for the bright conditions expected. It was for this reason that stars do not appear in surface images.
You would think that the brightness of the moons reflection, that it would interfere with the photos being taken.
From NASA’s planetary sites, the brightest is Venus with an albedo of 0.65. That means 65% of incoming sunlight is reflected from the cloud-covered planet.
Our Moon’s average visual albedo is 0.12. The brightness of the Moon changes dramatically as its phase changes.
Exerts source: How Bright is the Moon?
The Moon’s visual albedo on its illuminated segment gets progressively smaller as the angle between the Earth and Sun on the Moon (phase angle) increases. A major reason for this decrease of visual albedo with increasing phase angle is the greater creation of shadows on the irregular lunar surface, thereby reducing reflected light back to Earth.
Originally posted by stumason
As has been said, the moon doesn't produce any light at all, so either you need to re-word your OP or get on google...
Looking at the moon from a distance, we see all the reflected light in one go from what would appear to be a small object in the sky. On the surface, taking pictures there, you're only going to get reflected light locally in a confined area.
Think of the earth, from space it too is radiant with reflected light, the seas glimmer blue, the clouds shine white etc. But down here on earth we're not blinded either, are we? And the sea is certainly not blue....
Do you honestly think that if you're on the surface of the moon you'd be bathed in some sort of bright, blinding luminescence?
Originally posted by Arbitrageur
It's interesting you should say this, because this is exactly the opposite of what other moon landing conspiracy theorists claim, which is that the photos are too bright and the moon reflects too much. Here is one photo I've seen cited showing how reflective the moon is:
Originally posted by thesmokingman
Just throwing this out there to all you smart ATSers. I have always had ONE question about the moon landing and the possibility of it being a hoax.....The moon is a source of pretty bright light is it not? I mean, it produces quite a bit of light WAYYYY down here on earth. However, in EVERY single photo from the landing, there sure does not seem to be very much light.
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[conspiracy theorist]: This is a famous picture labeled "Man on the Moon" I have a poster of this picture hanging on my wall in my room, and it always gives me a chuckle.
If you will look at area B you will notice a shadow cast across Buzz Aldrin's space suit. Once again, if the Sun is the only light source used on the moon, this shadow would have been MUCH darker.
[reply explaining it's not a conspiracy]: The Sun is the primary light source, however, it lights up not only the lunar surface, but the LM, the astronauts spacesuit, and anything else on the lunar surface so that light scattered off of those objects will fill the dark shadows with light. Try going into a small darkened room and shine a flashlight on the wall. The side of you opposite the flashlight which only sees the lighted wall will be lit by the scattered light off the wall from the flashlight spot. The Earth also adds some fill light to the shadows, but the Sun dominates the lighting on the Moon.
This is supposedly proof of the moon landing being hoaxed because some people feel there must be another light source. But most of the light you see on the side of the astronaut in the shadow is reflected from the moon. It's possible a tiny bit of light from the Earth could add light to some pictures, but by far the biggest source is light reflected from the moon.
So which is it? Does it reflect too much as others claim, or not enough as you suggest? It looks just about right to me as seen in this photo, so I don't think this is any evidence of a hoax, but it certainly seems to be evidence refuting your claim that the light isn't brightly reflected from the moon's surface, right? There are other photos where the lunar module is brightly lit in the shadow, by the moon's reflection of sunlight.edit on 28-11-2012 by Arbitrageur because: clarification
This photo is an obvious fake.
There is a spotlight used not the sun.
The light is too weak to light up anywhere but the immediate area around the subject, then starts tapering off
into progressively deeper shadows away from the "astronot". Not at all the way we know light reflects from the sun.
Originally posted by Planet teleX
Cameras have the ability to adjust the exposure, via the shutter speed and aperture.
This is how you can cut down on light.
Originally posted by BrokenAngelWings33
reply to post by thesmokingman
What is weird to me is that if the Moon is reflecting sunlight how come we don't see the source of this reflection? And just what is the Moon made out of that it reflects light in the first place? Moon dust is reflective? Why is only half the moon light and the rest is always dark? How come we only see one side? When we see the sunshine from Earth we are able to see the source, as the Sun goes down the source of light diminishes, so telling us the Sun is what lights up the moon seems rather impossible.edit on 11/28/2012 by BrokenAngelWings33 because: grammar!